Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last few months we 've had a number of queries from hobbyists concerning fish which they have bought for their community tanks , which despite advice from their dealer , have turned out to be most unsuitable for such a set up . |
| 2 | The formula also shows the number of moles of atoms of each element in one mole of molecules . |
| 3 | Initial research work at Oxford United 's ground consisted mainly of making a large number of video-recordings of fans in the London Road End . |
| 4 | In this section we have seen that it is usually possible to reduce the number of accesses to synonyms by loading first the records most frequently accessed . |
| 5 | However , as figure 6.4 shows there was actually a small increase in the number of births to parents from social classes I and II over this period while births to parents in social classes III-V declined . |
| 6 | The Committee of London Clearing Bankers told us that in recent years the banks have been opening an increasing number of accounts for customers in the middle to lower income groups . |
| 7 | As a result of that incident there were a number of complaints by members of the public about the conduct of some of the police officers who had attended the incident . |
| 8 | The steady increase in the number of complaints against members of the Bar mentioned in last year 's report has continued ; 262 complaints having been received up to the end of September . |
| 9 | However , there had been a number of complaints from parents about the increasingly firm discipline in the school . |
| 10 | ‘ We have had a number of complaints from residents about people openly dealing in the streets . |
| 11 | Concerned about the increasing number of complaints from neighbours of alarms sounding off for several hours the council has pledged to help end the menace . |
| 12 | Consequently , early in 1985 we made a number of visits to schools in order to interview non-respondents and to request them to fill in the questionnaire orally . |
| 13 | There are a number of connections between elements in the Whitehouse/NVALA philosophy and aspects of the relationship between law and morality described by Lord Devlin in The Enforcement of Morals . |
| 14 | He said it had to be seen in the context of the UK 's £25billion a year deficit on trade in manufactured goods , a 22 per cent fall in enrolment for engineering courses since 1985 and the forecast decrease in the number of 16- to 24-year-olds by the mid-1990's . |
| 15 | He said it had to be seen in the context of the UK 's £25billion a year deficit on trade in manufactured goods , a 22 per cent fall in enrolment for engineering courses since 1985 and the forecast decrease in the number of 16- to 24-year-olds by the mid-1990's . |
| 16 | Councillor Ian MacDonald and former Councillor Spencer Rosie made a number of requests to officials for copies of the document . |
| 17 | The allegations were dismissed on the same day by an Egyptian Interior Ministry official , who cited a small number of cases of abuses by policemen but claimed that they had been properly investigated . |
| 18 | The report linked a higher-than-normal number of cases among children in rural parts of Scotland to the development of the North Sea oil industry . |
| 19 | There are extra Shift keys and a number of keys with arrows on them ( but there are no Shift-Lock keys to produce upper case letters and symbols ) . |
| 20 | Beatrice Webb initiated a number of studies of aspects of poverty for the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws of 1905–09. [ doc . |
| 21 | According to Ibn Hajar , Molla Fenari seems to have ignored a number of invitations to audiences with the sultan , but was finally present at an audience to celebrate the Prophet 's birthday , held , according to al-Makrizi , on Friday 7 Rabi " I. Molla Fenari , who was seated below the shaykh of the Mu'ayyadiyya , Ibn al-Dayri , took no part in the learned debate which occurred at that audience but was later present at a private audience with the sultan , when the two conversed . |
| 22 | Another experiment , this time in the Soudan iron mine in Minnesota , has set an even lower limit on the possible number of monopoles with velocities between unc and unc that of light . |
| 23 | Lastly , there are a number of differences between groups of institutions making up the monetary sector . |
| 24 | Already there have been a number of reports of developments of this kind . |
| 25 | In Birmingham , the largest number of placements for juveniles during the first eighteen months of the scheme were as messengers and porters , workers in drilling , milling , engineering , and brass foundries , business clerks , and labourers in warehouses . |
| 26 | Over the page Chair , within er , those totals there are a number of proposals for reductions in c certain areas of spending and increases in others , which are in excess of the amount which has been delegated to , er , to the Director to agree , and which needs this Committee 's approval erm , and would then go on to er , Resources Management for , for their agreement . |
| 27 | Editor , — A R Gamble and colleagues aimed to identify the primary site of metastatic cancer using tumour marker immunoreactivity in the hope that this will reduce the number of investigations in patients with often a very limited life span . |
| 28 | There is a large and growing feminist literature in sociology which is much appreciated by women students , including influential and innovative collections stemming from the British Sociological Association 's conferences and study groups on Sexual Divisions ( see , for example , Barker and Allen , 1976a and 1976b ) ; there is the BSA women 's caucus which operates as a forum for women and as a pressure group within the profession ; there is also the work of the BSA Standing Committee on the Equality of the Sexes ; and many of the small number of women in positions of relative power in the profession have been willing to use their influence on behalf of other women . |
| 29 | However SCOTVEC and BTEC had been engaged on a number of discussions on areas of mutual interest . |
| 30 | At this point in the exercise , the use of the instruments had revealed a number of factors in terms of the requirements of the IPS , and the problems that could affect its implementation and effectiveness . |